Method of making caps.



0. D. SHAW. METHOD OF MAKING CAPS. APPLICATION FILED MAY 1. 1914.

Patented Apr. 4, 1916.

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PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

ORA D. SHAW, OF

METHOD OF MAKING CAPS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed May '7, 1914. Serial No. 836,886.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ORA D. SHAW, a citizen of the United States, residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented new and useful Improvements in Methods of Making Caps, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a method of making caps and has particular application to a method of making uniform caps.

In carrying out the present invention, it is my purpose to provide amethod of the class described whereby the component parts of the cap may be secured to one another by machine sewing, thereby eliminating the necessity for sewing the parts together by hand.

' It is also my purpose to provide a method of making caps whereby precision and uniformity in product is assured and where by theparts are assembled in a form convenient for handling prior to the attaching of the vizor. Y

A further object of my invention is to provide a method of manufacturing caps whereby the parts will be so assembled that the same may be sewed together from the outside of the structure and whereby the connected parts may be reversed or turned subsequent to the sewing operation, thereby enabling the stitches to be concealed in the finished product.

A still further object of my invention is to provide a method of making uniform caps whereby the cap may be made in a minimum time and with small expenditure of labor and which will embody comparatively few steps.

With the above-recited and other objects in view, the invention consists in the various 7 steps set forth in and falling within the claims hereunto appended.

In the accompanying drawings: Figures 1, 2, 3 and A are perspective views of the cap in the different stages of construction. Fig. 5 is a cross sectional view through the cap. Fig. 6 is a perspective view of the finished product.

In carrying my method into practice, I take a cap frame 1 of any suitable or approved construction and stitch to the lower edge or base thereof the bottom edge of a cloth cover 2 turned wrong side out. This cover is of any desired structure and preferably comprises a frame covering section ing is turned over the frame.

ing the cap, the cover, forward portion thereof, is pushed through Patented Apr. 4:, 1916.

3 and bell forming section 4. carrying the tip 7 10 and is sewed to the inner surface of the frame as at 5. At one point the cover remains unattached to the frame as at 6 and this unattached portion is preferably of a length equal to the length of the vizor of the cap. A strip 11 is bound to the edge of the frame at the point where the cover is unattached. At this time, if desired the sweat band 9 may be secured to the frame coveringsection 3 upon the inner side thereof and the binding strip 11. tion between the sweat band and the particular section of the cover extends around to the point where the cover is detached from the frame and at this point the sweat band is fastened, by stitches or otherwise, to the binding strip 11. The lining 7 of the cap is now, preferably, sewed to the coverat the juncture of the tip 10 and bell forming section 4: and, in addition to the lining, any suitable or necessary parts such, for instance, as pipings and wire distenders, may be combined with the covering at the point of connection between the tip and bell forming section, or between the latter andithe frame covering section 3. Thevizor 8 of the cap may now be fastened to the lower edge of the frame where the binding-strip 11 is attached, the sweat band 9 being turned down during the stitching operation so that'the stitches will unite the vizor to the frame without penetrating the sweat band. If desired, connecting the vizor with the frame may be deferred until the cover- The structure thus formed is now turned within the circular cap frame so that the cloth covering is turned right side out and the cap frame disposed upon the outer side of the covering. To complete the method of formbeginning with the the slit or opening at the point where the cover is unattached to the frame, the back of the frame is doubled or bent inwardly toward the vizor in crescent form and the cover, passing through the opening and restrained or pivoted by its connections with the ends of the opening, turned upward, around and over the inturned frame. The frame rebounds to 'its'circular form and is now disposed within the cap covering. The unattached portion of the cover may now be fastened to the frame above the vizor in some suitable manner.

The connec- 'S1Si7S in turning the In the practice of my invention, the Various parts of the cover are sewed together in the'usual way and I wish it to be understood that I do not confine myself to the particular order herein described. It is ad vantageous to attach the vizor to the frame of the cap in the last stages of construction. The sweat band may be sewed directly to the cloth band and strip during the first steps of the process or such sweat band may be attached to the particular covered edge of the frame by means of a fabric strip previous to fastening of the vizor to the frame of the cap. As it is not necessary to reverse the frame of the cap during my process the sweat band may, at an early stage, be neatly fitted. thereto and may be readily adjusted so as to produce a drummed or cushion effect to insure a comfortable fitting cap. Furthermore, the turning of the covering and lining and other parts carried thereby conceals the stitches connecting the various parts so that the cap has a neat and smooth appearance.

I claim:

1. The method of making caps which consists in sewing the covering to the lower edge of the frame with the covering detached from the frame at one point whereby the resultant structure may be turned through the opening at such unattached portion. substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The method of making caps which concovering wrong side out and sewing the same to the lower edge of the frame with the covering detached from the frame at one point whereby the covering of the resultant structure may be turned through the opening at such unattached portion substantially as and for thepurpose set forth. 7

3. The method of making caps which consists in sewing the covering to the lower edge of the frame on the inner face of the latter with the covering detached from the frame at one point whereby the covering of the resultant structure may be turned such unattached por- Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the base of the frame tion substantially as and for the purpose set sists in sewing the covering to the lower edge of the frame at the inner face of the latter with the covering detached from] the frame at one point whereby the covering of the resultant structure 7 may be turned at the inner face of thedetached. from the structure may be turned:

through the opening at such unattachedpor-i tion, then securing the sweat band to the on the inner surface thereof and turning the covering over the frame and sweat band.

6. The method of making caps which consists in sewing the covering to the lower with the covering. de-- edge of the frame tached from the frame at one point whereby the covering of the be turned through the opening at such unattached portion, to the base'of the frame at the unattached portion thereof and then turning the covering over the frame.

resultant structure may then securing the vizor:

. 7. The method of making caps which consists in turning the covering wrong side out,

sewing the same and the lining and attached:

parts tothe lower edge of the frame on the inner surface thereof with the covering de-- tached from the frame at one point whereby the covering of the resultant structure may be turned through the opening at such. un

attached portion and then turning thecloth covering and lining over the frame. In testimony whereof, Iaflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ORA D. SHAW. lVitne'sses:

WV. W. RANDALL, JOHN D. RrcHAnnsoN.

Washington, I). O. 

